Monday, August 30, 2010

Coffee with a canine: Adele Griffin & Edith

I named her after my great-grandmother, who was also considered a beauty in her day. We call her Edie, Beedle, Bee, the Bee, the Great Beadle, Squeedly, Beedlix, Chach, Rach, and of course...[read on]

Griffin's latest book is The Julian Game, a "riveting novel [which] explores the issues of generation Facebook: the desire to be someone else, real versus online friends, and the pitfalls and fallouts of posting your personal life online for all the world to judge."

"Adele Griffin has a contemporary hit on her hands with The Julian Game. Fun, witty, ... this book was a fantastic look at how kids us the web to bully outside of school.... The book is the best kind of brain candy...."--Bookalicious

"Cyber-bullying, alter egos, and crazy revenge plots against exes who've wronged you. You can't get anymore high school than that, which is exactly why I loved this book. The Julian Game was a really fun read."--The Book Girl